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Charles H Phipps Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k14 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LOUISE HOUSE | $50,000 |
| NOTRE DAME OF DALLAS SCHOOLS INC | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK INC | $25,000 |
| DASH NETWORK | $20,000 |
| CARITAS OF AUSTIN | $20,000 |
| TO BE LIKE ME | $20,000 |
| HUGS CAFE | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES FORT WORTH | $20,000 |
| THE CONCILIO | $20,000 |
| CASA MARIANELLA | $10,000 |
| GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT | $10,000 |
| THE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE | $10,000 |
| LIFEWORKS | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $252k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
21 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CFCENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT INC7× · 2018–2024 · $210k · revenue +46%
- COCARITAS OF AUSTIN9× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +43%
Central Texas Food Bank Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- VUVanderbilt University Medical Centerone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +13%
- TATHE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVINGgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +341%
- AHALLEYS HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Engage in building procted to provide emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent housing while offering job skills training and support to help residents move toward self-sufficiency.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
Provide programs and services to enable adults with intellectual disabilities to live full, rich lives in a safe environment and to meaningfully participate in the community.
Our mission is to support low-income Texans efforts to achieve the American dream of a decent, affordable home in a quality neighborhood. We believe that Texas critical low-income housing and community development needs can best be solved…
Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…
ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.
The mission of austin street center is to provide emergency shelter and related services to the homeless. programs provide crisis intervention, substance abuse awareness information and opportunities to improve present life situations to…
The mission of Dallas Services is to enable individuals with disabilities and other special needs to achieve their potential by fostering community inclusiveness and independence.
To provide community, life-long learning, and meaningful work for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Good Work Austin's mission is to foster healthy careers in the local food and beverage industry through professional development and advocacy for more equitable practices.
Elevate North Texas offers a welcoming and affirming environment for youth 18-24 experiencing homelessness providing short-term housing and case management. Elevate North Texas addresses youth homelessness from two angles: a hotel program…
Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Capital and the most unlike its peers is Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME OF DALLAS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds VINCARE SERVICES OF AUSTIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE INC ↗
- Who funds RISE SCHOOL OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds Its a Sensory World Inc ↗
- Who funds GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds Austin Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds TO BE LIKE ME ↗
- Who funds RAYS OF LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds THE CONCILIO ↗
- Who funds HUGS CAFE INC ↗
- Who funds KID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE ↗
- Who funds DFW ASYLUM SEEKER HOUSING NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds ALLEYS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds RAES HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE REFUGEE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Capital Investing in Development and Employment of Adults Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA MARIANELLA INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION CAPITAL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Moody Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Jordan Spieth Family Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · St David's Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Donald D Hammill Foundation · The Rachael and Ben Vaughan Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Charles H Phipps Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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